Call To The Ministry
Baines was baptized in the Salem Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa County in 1834. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1837. He married the former Melissa Ann Butler of North Carolina on October 20, 1840, and thereafter moved to northern Arkansas, where he founded three churches and baptized 150 converts. He was also a missionary for the Baptist Home Mission Society of New York City. Baines even served for three months in the Arkansas House of Representatives from November 1843 to February 1844 as the member from Carroll County.
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